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>GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces, originally designed with
the general look and feel of Motif.  In reality, it looks much
better than Motif.  It contains common and complex widgets, such as
file selection, and color selection widgets.</P
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>GTK+ was initially developed as a widget set for the GIMP (GNU Image
Manipulation Program). It has grown extensively since then, and is today
used by a large number of applications, and is the toolkit used by the
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>GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers,
including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees
or royalties.</P
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>GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
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such as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI
builder) provides an effective method of rapid application
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